 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 598 pagina’s
...entelechia and soul of our subsistences ? To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a...had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate ? many of the mummies,* are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 228 pagina’s
...seldom now do we hear their names mentioned ? Well and truly does rare old Sir Thomas Brown say, " Oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men, without distinction I to merit of perpetuity. "Who can but pity the \ founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that... | |
 | 1848 - 708 pagina’s
...еateleckia and soul of our subsistences 1 To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. Ana who had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate 1 " But the iniquity of oblivion blindly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pagina’s
...subsistences. To be nameless in worthy deeds eiotedi || an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman live> more happily without a name than Herodias with one....than Pilate? But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scsttereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity :... | |
 | 1884 - 874 pagina’s
...following, often quoted, are beautiful: " To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a...had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate ? " Again : " Happy are they whom privacy makes innocent, who deal so with men in this world that they... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 pagina’s
...Entelechia and soul of our subsistences. To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a...had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate 1 "But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pagina’s
...exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodotus with one. And who had not rather have been the good...distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can but pity tho founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is ulmost lost that... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 88 pagina’s
...Lamb's book of life." " Ihe Canaanitish woman," says the dear old writer, 80 HONOUR TO THE NAMELESS. " lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who would not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ?" A bragging bully, who has impertinently elbowed... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pagina’s
...essence and soul of our subsistences ? To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a...had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate 1 But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | 1861 - 636 pagina’s
...Urn-burial," in another of his apt allusions : " To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a...had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? " So Wordsworth sings the satisfying consciousness and lasting remembrance of — " That best portion... | |
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To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate? 
